In nine three-day sessions spread over nine months, the Continuum provides participants with ample opportunity both to learn and to apply new techniques. Par will develop actual cases from their own practices, beginning with diagnosis and treatment planning, proceeding through surgical guide fabrication and 3-D image analysis, and culminating in implant placement. Each participant has the opportunity to place single and multiple implants under the careful guidance of the Triangle Dental Institute faculty. The Dental Implant Continuum qualifies for 216 hours of C.E. Credit and satisfies the requirements for the ICOI Fellowship.

Technique labs, which begin at 10:00am each Friday, feature live surgeries, lectures on the science and techniques behind the surgeries, and hands-on workshops. Forty-plus hours of hands-on workshops enable participants to visualize the intricacies of lecture material. Through watching, listening, and practicing, participants gain both knowledge and proficiency in cutting-edge techniques.

Hands-on Workshops Include:

Occlusion techniques in implantology

Implant placement on sawdust jaws

3-D digital imaging manipulation

Surgical guide fabrication on preparatory models from participants’ own patients

Suturing techniques on pig jaws

Surgical flaps design and manipulation on sawdust jaws and later on pig jaws

Each Saturday and Sunday from 8:30am to 5:00pm, featured speakers provide in-depth information in their particular areas of expertise (see Course Schedule). Throughout the course, representatives from the major implant systems, specialty instrument manufacturers and grafting material suppliers will be on-site to ensure that the participants gain a broad understanding of all products and techniques available.

Since successful implant dentistry depends upon the involvement of the entire practice, the November session provides the opportunity for participants to train and certify (ICOI) their team members.. The goals for this session include incorporating implant surgery into participants’ practices and providing staff with the skills and confidence necessary to assist in placing implants. Together, teams will view live surgeries and attend lectures on case presentation, office organization and implant maintenance. In special break-out sessions, team members will learn how to set up specialized equipment and how to effectively assist throughout the entire implant process.

All lectures and laboratory sessions take place in a state-of-the-art facility located just minutes from the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU). The Research Triangle Park area is unparalleled in its commitment to research and technology, its beauty and its Southern hospitality.

Leadership Team

DirectorMark Hunt, DDS

Dr. Mark Hunt earned his BA and DDS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Fellow of the ICOI. He maintains a private practice in Durham, North Carolina, with an emphasis on aesthetic and implant dentistry. For the past five years, Dr. Hunt and his staff have organized annual dental mission trips to Haiti and Central America through East Chapel Hill Rotary Club. In 2005, Dr. Hunt established the Triangle Dental Institute to educate dentists in dental implants and bone grafting.

Co-DirectorJohn Rob Holland, DDS

Dr. Holland received his DDS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Fellow of the ICOI. He founded Sally Industries, a robotics and animation company, while maintaining a private practice in Jacksonville, Florida. He has developed a dental office management software program, “The Dental Executive,” to improve office efficiency and has produce videos for dental office repair and maintenance.

Co-DirectorDavid M. Simpson, DDS, PhD

Dr. David Simpson is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. He has been one of UNC-Chapel Hill’s most popular faculty members during his 30-plus years association with the Dental School, serving as Department Chair from 1987-1994. He now maintains a private practice in Raleigh, North Carolina focusing on periodontics and dental implants.

Course Schedule

Schedule Overview

March 25-27

Scott Lingle, DDS

John Moriarty, DDS, MS

June 10-12

Tom McGarry, DDS, MS

September 23-25

Michael McCracken, DDS, MS, PhD

Michael Reddy, DMD, MS

April 15-17

Leo Malin, DDS

July 15-17

Ken Hebel, DDS, MS

Daulton Keith, DDS, FICD

October 7-9

Joseph Kan, DDS, MS

Eric Hamrick, DDS, MS

May 20-22

Mike Pikos, DDS, MS

Barry Franzen, DDS, MS

August 19-21

John Russo, DDS, MHS

Kanyon Keeney, DDS

November 4-6

Kathi Carlson, CDA

Jeff Carlson, CDT

March 25-27

Scott Lingle, DDS
Implant Dentistry Can Be Simple

Dr. Lingle is a Fellow in the ICIO and an Associate Fellow of both the American College of Oral Implantology and the American Association of Osseointegration. He lectures extensively on implantology and bone grafting. Having developed and taught numerous hands-on workshops, Dr. Lingle was awarded the 2005 Outstanding Service Award by the Minnesota Dental Association. He currently maintains a private practice in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Course Outline

Case presentation and fee determination

Steps involved in providing implants as restorations from planning to completion

When and how to present implant options

Single tooth implants vs. fixed bridges

Basics of grafting, socket and ridge preservation for the general dentist

John Daniel Moriarty
Decision Making: What is Conservative Implant Treatment?

Dr. Moriarty is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Periodontology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Moriarty became a Diplomate of the American Academy of Periodontology in 1983. He maintained a clinical practice in the Dental Faculty Practice for 28 years. Presently, he practices two days per week in Cary, North Carolina. Dr. Moriarty has won multiple teaching awards at UNC-Chapel Hill. He served as the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Periodontics for 20 years. He served as the Director of the Dental Implant Program for the School of Dentistry from 1998-2005. He is currently the Vice-chair for the Education Committee of the American Academy of Periodontology. He has presented over 150 lectures and seminars, nationally and internationally.

Assess the need for hard tissue grafting, types of grafts available and parameters for determination of risk/benefit

April 15-17

Leo Malin, DDS
Guided Surgical Placement of Dental Implants

Dr. Malin graduated from Marquette University in 1991. He maintains a private practice in LaCrosse, WI, where he has been utilizing occlusal based dental concepts since l998. Early in his career, he discovered that the implant placement techniques used could not deliver a standard, predictable result. Therefore, with the help of other experts in the fields of radiology and occlusion, Dr. Malin developed an implant placement technique which focused on occlusion (and cosmetics) for implant placement and crown restoration. This technique has led to five patents pending along with exceptional implant results. Dr. Malin lectures throughout North America on full-mouth reconstructions and implant placement. Dr. Malin is the Director of Implantology at the Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies (LVI).

Perhaps the best known and most widely recognized expert in the field of dental hard and soft tissue grafting and dental implant placement, Dr. Pikos lectures extensively on dental implants in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. He is a well published author and the founder and CEO of the Pikos Implant Institute. Since 1990, he has educated more than 2200 students from all 50 states and 32 countries. He maintains a practice limited exclusively to implant surgery in Palm Harbor, Florida

Course Outline

Indications / Application of Bone Grafting Techniques

Interactive CT with Direct Clinical Application

Hard Tissue Ridge Augmentation

Autogenous Mandibular Block Grafting

Sinus Grafting

Ridge Splitting

Tibial Bone Grafting

Mesh/Particulate Bone Grafts: Autogenous vs. Allograft vs. Xenograft

Bioactive Modifiers – PRGF, PDGF, BMP-2

Barry Franzen, DDS, MS

Dr. Franzen received his prosthodontic training at the University of Missouri. He maintains a practice limited to prosthodontics in which he places surgically 90% of the implants he restores He lectures nationally and internationally and is the past president of the American College of Prosthodontist in Wisconsin.

Course Outline

Diagnosis and treatment planning from a prosthetic perspective

Anticipating prosthetic requirements

Utilizing technology to inform proper placement

June 10-12

Tom McGarry, DDS
Implant Placement from a Prosthetic Perspective

Dr. McGarry received his DDS from the University of Missouri at Kansas City and his
Certificate of Prosthodontics from UCSF/VA San Francisco. In addition to being Board
Certified by the American Board of Prosthodontics, Dr. McGarry is currently a fellow of the
American College of Prosthodontists where he served as president from 2000-2001. He is the
Founder of the Oklahoma Society of Prosthodontists and the Director of the McGarry Implant
Institute. Dr. McGarry maintains a full time Prosthodontic practice in Oklahoma City.

Course Outline

Learn and effectively utilize the most advanced and latest least invasive technique of tooth replacement

Dr. Hebel is a published author and lectures nationally and internationally on all phases of restorative and implant dentistry. He is the Director of the Hands On Institute, where he where he provides extensive hands-on surgical and prosthetic training in implantology, and he is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Dentistry, University of Ontario, Canada. He is a certified periodontist and maintains a private practice in Ontario providing advanced surgical and prosthetic phases of implant dentistry.

Course Outline

Concepts of smile design relative to treatment outcomes and the need for bone and tissue grafting

Use of plane of occlusion to control esthetics

Diagnosis and treatment planning approach that can be applied to traditional techniques as well as implant dentistry

The special demand of the esthetic zone and the criteria for successfully treating this area

The ease and use of the single tooth implant.

Daulton Keith, DDS, FICD

Dr. Keith maintains a private practice in Periodontics in Charleston, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia and Boston University’s School of Graduate Dentistry in Periodontics. Dr. Keith serves on the faculty of the Medical University of South Carolina, College of Dental Medicine, as a Clinical Professor in the Division of Graduate Periodontics. He lectures nationally and internationally has published several articles in national dental journals regarding implantology and block bone grafting.

Dr. Russo is a diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. He is in private practice in Sarasota,Florida, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in the Department of Periodontics. He is an author and an international lecturer on bone grafting and dental implant surgery.

Kanyon Keeney, DDS
Implant Surgery: The Art, The Science, and the Business Model

Dr. Keeney received his DDS with honors at the Medical College of Virginia in 1984 and obtained an early externship in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at The Jackson Memorial Hospital Trauma Center in Miami, FL. He completed his residency at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 where he served as Chief Resident. He maintains a practice in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with a concentration in implant surgery. As a cofounder of the Implant Forum of Virginia, Dr. Keeney has worked to bring advanced implant techniques to the Richmond Dental Community. He is a Diplomate in the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, a Fellow in the American Association of Oral Surgeons and American Society of Dental Anesthesia and became the first active Board Certified Oral Surgeon in Virginia to become a Diplomate in the International Congress of Oral Implantology. He is a frequent lecturer and active in the use of 3-D CAT scan technology in implant treatment.

Dr. McCracken currently serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama School of Dentistry
in Birmingham, Alabama, in the Department of Prosthodontics. He is the Director of Pre-doctoral Implant
Education at UAB and also teaches implantology at the residency level. Dr. McCracken has published
multiple articles relating to biomaterials, bone-implant interactions, and clinical implant dentistry. He
currently serves as a section editor for the Journal of Prosthodontics. Dr. McCracken lectures nationally and
internationally on subjects relating to implant dentistry.

Dr. Reddy is a graduate of Harvard School of Dental Medicine where he earned his DMD degree, Certificate
of Periodontology and Doctorate of Medical Sciences Degree in Oral Biology. He is a Diplomate of the
American Board of Periodontology as well as the Assistant Dean for Planning and Clinical Activity at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry. He is actively involved in teaching the placement
of implants at the graduate residency level and has lectured extensively on this and restorative topics. His
areas of research also focus on implantology. Dr. Reddy’s clinical interests include bone grafting, implant
placement, and esthetics of implants.

Course Outline

Live mentored placement of implants for mandibular overdenturesUtilizing both single stage and two stage implants, 8-10 students with most ideal cases will have the opportunity for live implant placement with a 1:1 faculty-student ratio

Techniques for fixed attachable prosthesis

Low cost options for simple overdentures

October 7-9

Joseph Kan, DDS, MS

Dr. Kan is a professor in the Dept. of Restorative Dentistry at Loma Linda University and maintains a private practice in Prosthodontics and Implant Surgery. In 1997, he received the Best Research Award at the Academy of Osseointegration. He received the Judson Hinckey Scientific Award from the Journal of Prosthetic dentistry in 2003 and the Robert James Achievement Award in 2005 for his contributions in the field of implant dentistry. He is on the Periodontology/Implantology Editorial Board of the Practical Procedures & Aesthetic Dentistry and the European Journal of Esthetic dentistry. One of the few clinicians worldwide trained in both the surgical and restorative discipline of implant dentistry, he provides both lectures and surgical demonstrations worldwide and has published more than 50 articles with a focus on anterior esthetics.

Course Outline

Predicting papilla preservation in anterior placement

Grooming tissue to maximize papillary retention

Diagnosis and treatment planning to maximize esthetics

John Eric Hamrick DDS, MS

Dr. Hamrick is a past president of the South Carolina Society of Periodontics and the
Greenville Dental Society. He currently maintains privileges with the Greenville Hospital
System and is a past chairman of its Department of Dentistry. Dr. Hamrick is Board
Certified by the American Board of Periodontology and is a member of the Southern
Academy of Periodontology, and the American Academy of Osseointegration. He is a
member of the academic faculty of the Medical University of South Carolina’s College of
Dental Medicine and has lectures locally and nationally. Dr. Hamrick has maintained a
private practice in Greenville, South Carolina for more than twenty years.

Course Outline

Maxillary implant retained removable partial dentures

Guided implant therapy

Virtual treatment planning

Implant-oirthodontic-restorative connections

November 4-6

Kathi Carlson, CDA
ADIA Dental Team Implant Certification Program

Mr. Carlson has been in the profession of dentistry for over 35 years with the last 19 focused
on implant dentistry. She trains implant teams throughout the global dental community and
provides cutting-edge clinical and processional development programs. She is a graduate of
Indiana University’s Certified Dental Assisting Program and is the co-founder of The Implant
Consortium, an educational resource for dental implant professionals. Ms. Carlson is a
Fellow and a founding Certified Educator of the Association of Dental Implant Auxiliaries
(ADIA); she received the 2008 ADIA Educator of the Year Award.

Course Outline

Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

Patient Interaction

Implant Surgical Procedures

Prosthodontic Procedures

Maintenance and Evaluation Procedures

Marketing & Patient Education

Jeff Carlson, CDT
Current Concepts in Implant Prosthetics

Mr. Carlson is a Certified Dental Technician with 28 years of dental experience. He has
worked in all facets of the dental laboratory and has provided hundreds of chair-side
“coaching” sessions to implant manufacturers. Jeff is the primary author of a 300-page, fully
illustrated “cookbook” for restorative doctors and is a co-developer of a restorative base
training program for doctors and auxiliaries entitled, Support Plus, which has been attended
nationally and internationally by over 11,000 professionals. Jeff has lectures throughout North
America, England, Singapore, Sweden, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Spain, providing
general dentists with a “Methodology to the Madness” in the area of dental implants.

Course Outline

Making dental implants predictable, profitable, and fun!

Current concepts in implant prosthetics

“A Methodology to the Madness!”

Continuing Education Credits

Academy of General Dentistry Approved PACE Program Provider
FAGD/MAGD Credit

Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of
dentistry or AGD endorsement.
3/1/2010 to 2/28/2013
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This program is approved for 216 credit hours

Sponsors

This program highlights the following implant systems:

Astra
Biohorizons
Dentsply
Nobel Biocare
Strauman Dental
Zimmer

Mentored Placement of Implants on Your Patient at Our Facility

We will provide a surgical operatory, the services of one of our faculty doctors, all surgical equipment and supplies, including the implant, plus a surgical assistant to monitor your assistant. An overhead charge of 70% of the case fee will apply.

Tuition

Fees are for cash/check payments. Credit card payments require an additional 2% transaction fee.
Course available to the first 40 entrants

Charge my deposit in the amount of $1,500 to my credit card.
I also authorize balance to be divided into two equal payments and charged to my credit card on the specified dates.
The $1,500 non-refundable deposit will hold your space.
The remainder can be paid in two installments, half at the March 12th session and the other half at the June 11th session.
In the unlikely event of this course’s cancellation, all feeds will be refunded which shall constitute full settlement.

“I highly recommend the North Carolina Triangle Dental Institute 2010 Dental Implant Continuum as a vehicle to begin your practical career in implant dentistry. Great experience… Great faculty… Great small group learning environment!”